I afraid to put the 105mm derp on my M4 yet as I know my luck with tiering means I'll end up with a gun that can't pen anyone in the match and I'll never have anything to derp with it.

I know I've said it a dozen times in this thread already, but bring some credit HEAT. At least 5 or 10 rounds, although I bring 30. You can pen anything but a Tiger(P) in the front with the HEAT, and you're lobbing that shell every 6.5 or 7 seconds.

I'll have to give it a try then. Disappointed by the speed of the M4 even with top engine so I was worried when I read on the wiki you have to get close to hurt with the 105mm

'" Does anyone know of clans recruiting other than _BAD_? I actually really like the BAD guys (chuckle). But HAVOK... well, that's another animal all together.

Plus, I dunno if I'd even qualify for one of the "real" clans or not..."

Your stats are good enough plus you have some end tier tanks. I don't know how it's going to work going forward (1 day in BAD ) but I don't foresee having any interaction with Havok apart from sharing TS. That's above my pay grade. It would probably be frowned upon to tk them though.

Besides with a clan having 100 folks in there, there's bound to be an ahole or 3 around, ARS excepted now I've retired my Bear.

Thinkerton and SIMP are recruiting and I've only ever seen and heard good things about them. SIMP are allied with the Legion at the mo.

I'll have to give it a try then. Disappointed by the speed of the M4 even with top engine so I was worried when I read on the wiki you have to get close to hurt with the 105mm

You don't have to (HE/HEAT doesn't drop off with distance), it just makes it a bit easier to hit them. With a 100% crew and a GLD, though, it aims reasonably quickly.

The M4 derp shines as an urban combatant, though. Poke around the corner, boom, back off (and re-flank if necessary). Any other place you can use cover to pop out unexpectedly (esp. close to or on the flanks of your opponent) works as well.

How is the T5 French arty? I picked the T4 up and am finding its 9s reloads amusing.

Fine for its tier, on par with the Hummel. It's a damn speedy vehicle, and the gun has reasonably balanced ROF, accuracy and damage, but low splash values. It is odd in that it has a wide gun traverse but only to the right. Yes, your gun only traverses to one side. Once you get used to it, it's not a problem.

I'll have to give it a try then. Disappointed by the speed of the M4 even with top engine so I was worried when I read on the wiki you have to get close to hurt with the 105mm

You don't have to (HE/HEAT doesn't drop off with distance), it just makes it a bit easier to hit them. With a 100% crew and a GLD, though, it aims reasonably quickly.

The M4 derp shines as an urban combatant, though. Poke around the corner, boom, back off (and re-flank if necessary). Any other place you can use cover to pop out unexpectedly (esp. close to or on the flanks of your opponent) works as well.

Also useful: baiting your opponent around the corner. Side shots are teh winz. My first game with the A10 derp was as below:

|---------| |-----| |-----------------| | me |

I was in the courtyard of one of the building clusters on that map with a city/railyard/field layout. I moved up in cover to where some red dots were on the map, peeked out just enough to ensure I was spotted and moved back. Had one guy file through the right opening - kill. Next one came up just as I was completing reload - kill. Another one filtered through - kill. Had to go hunt down my last couple kills though.

How is the T5 French arty? I picked the T4 up and am finding its 9s reloads amusing.

Fine for its tier, on par with the Hummel. It's a damn speedy vehicle, and the gun has reasonably balanced ROF, accuracy and damage, but low splash values. It is odd in that it has a wide gun traverse but only to the right. Yes, your gun only traverses to one side. Once you get used to it, it's not a problem.

It's not bad, and certainly packs a bigger punch than the 105 on the T4. The stock gun is mediocre with regardes to accuracy, but the long barreled upgrade gun is much better.

Knew I had a great game and was *begging* my remaining teammates to drive across the map and finish the last guy. We had one person in hiding waiting for backup (he was near me when I died) and the other two at our cap sitting behind cover.

So after dorking around with the French TD line (made it to the V39), I've gotten tired of it. I loved the bathtub (S-35CA), but the V39 is just lacking. I'm understanding that the rest of the line is fairly similar, so I'm trying to decide where to go with it.

Does the french TD line get better, or am I just wasting my time when I should be going for something else. Both the US turreted TD line and the russian TD lines look like something I'd enjoy. Russian for derp magic and the US TD line for big honkin' guns. I'm up to the Hellcat already, so that would make this move more of a lateral. The Russian line would be starting from ground zero.

The top TDs on both of those lines scare the shit out of me when I'm up against them. I think that's the criteria I usually use for whether or not I should play a tank.

I play the German/American(turret) TDs. They're both a lot of fun - Germans because I can shoot through a window and shred the dumbass behind it who thought he was safe. Americans because they're fast, pack a punch, and then disappear.

Slowly starting the credit grind for my E-75. Everything is unlocked except the top engine, so I think its roughly 4.1 million credits to buy the tank and equip everything. So at my current blanace I have about 3.7 million more credits to go. Tempted to sell my Tiger II to speed things along, but I've heard nothing but regret from E-75 drivers that have done that. That and its kinda grown on me (I had nothing but pure hate for it initially) after I learned how to use it "properly." Well, my Lowe, M4, and Type 59 will be seeing a lot of action in the near future.

Am I just retarded, or is there some reason that I can't view replays on the MWReplays site? Everytime I click the "View" button nothing happens (except that the counter on the button goes up by 1). I can't find any instructions anywhere either...

Am I just retarded, or is there some reason that I can't view replays on the MWReplays site? Everytime I click the "View" button nothing happens (except that the counter on the button goes up by 1). I can't find any instructions anywhere either...

Lol. That just means you viewed the battle details. Download the replay, click on it and WOT should start up and run the replay. (Don't have the game running when trying to watch replays).

You can turn on replays (or battle recording) in your game settings and it will save games in a "replays" folder. You can run fraps and record the replay for youtube (like Vidx earlier) or you can upload it to MyReplays.ru and the will convert it for you.

Also, your current mods and XVM settings are applied when watching a replay, so it's a great way to futz with your XVM settings without having to run a game and risk not being able to read anything because you fucked up the text size. (It doesn't load stats, though, so you'll see blanks in all the spots where stats should go.)

Slowly starting the credit grind for my E-75. Everything is unlocked except the top engine, so I think its roughly 4.1 million credits to buy the tank and equip everything. So at my current blanace I have about 3.7 million more credits to go. Tempted to sell my Tiger II to speed things along, but I've heard nothing but regret from E-75 drivers that have done that. That and its kinda grown on me (I had nothing but pure hate for it initially) after I learned how to use it "properly." Well, my Lowe, M4, and Type 59 will be seeing a lot of action in the near future.

Without the top engine you will regret going from the tiger II to the E-75. If I remember correctly you go from 800hp to 1200hp with that last engine upgrade, so its a huge jump. Without it, the E-75 is almost unbearably slow.

I'm in the same boat as you though when it comes to needing to grind out credits. I need another 10 million or so to buy both my T110E5 and E100. The gold rounds for credits and the half off weekend really set me back on those purchases since I stocked up on some rounds.